Full f gyrokinetic method for particle simulation of tokamak transport

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 5582-5609

  Heikkinen, J A ^a   Janhunen, S J ^a   Kiviniemi, T P ^a   Ogando, F ^a,b  

^a ASSOCIATION EURATOM TEKES   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Particle simulation; Plasma; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ASPECT RATIO; COLLISIONAL PLASMAS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; IONS; MACH NUMBER; MAGNETOPLASMA; PLASMA TURBULENCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POLARIZATION; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

COEFFICIENT MATRIX; GYROKINETICS; ION POLARIZATION; PARTICLE IN CELL; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; PLASMA TRANSPORT; RADIAL ELECTRIC FIELD; TOKAMAK TRANSPORT; TOROIDAL PLASMAS; TRANSPORT SIMULATION;

POISSON EQUATION;

EID: 42649117536     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.02.013     Document Type: Article

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